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Join Dr. Jessa Lingel for: Uncommon internets: Digital technologies and countercultural communities

    Klein College of Media and Communication
    Dr. Lingel

    Dr. Lingel is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

    More than a decade before Facebook launched, body modification enthusiasts were running their own social media platform, drawing users interested in piercings, tattoos and other modifications. In New Jersey's longstanding punk scene, music enthusiasts have honed methods for simultaneously publicizing shows and evading police, using a range of technologies, some far older than many of the scene's participants. Brooklyn's booming drag community has revitalized New York's drag culture, bringing an assortment of hacks and workarounds for crafting drag personas online. Drawing on years of mixed methods field work, including ethnography, focus groups and archival textual analysis, this talk examines the capacity of digital technologies to support countercultural communities, with the goal of exposing the multi-faceted nature of online life and to expose wider implications of how internet technologies are reshaping social interactions.

    ​Jessa Lingel is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she was a post doctoral research fellow at Microsoft Research New England, working with the Social Media Collective. She received her Ph.D. in communication and information from Rutgers University. She has an MLIS from Pratt Institute and an MA from New York University. Her research interests include information inequalities and technological distributions of power. A California transplant to the East Coast, Jessa is currently located in Philadelphia.

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    Created By: Klein College of Media and Communication
    Sponsors: School of Media and Communication
    Open To: Public
    Type: Lecture
    Tags: SMC Graduate Speaker Series

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